Clip Markers Disappear – When working on a shared project

[Tero Ahlfors]

Are you on the same computer?

[Austin Steele]

Nope different computer, different hard drives.

[Tero Ahlfors]

Clip markers are written to XMP metadata for the clip unless you’ve check the “write clip markers to XMP” checkbox off under preferences media. And as they’re not available in your project there should be sidecar metadata files written next to the files and you’ll need those as well.

Here’s more on that: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1109772

[Alex Udell]

It strikes me as odd that you saw them and then you didn’t see them after a re-open.

Tero is right about the making sure the Pref is checked…

note though that “clips” as they exist in PPro are pointers to media stored on a drive…

sidecar files are related to XMP meta data for media files themselves when they are a media container file (mpeg2 or mts for example) that don’t support appended metadata to the file itself.

As far as your sequence and clips are concerned…that should be metadata applied to the .prproj itself.

I’m not sure why that would get lost. But I would defintely on that pref checkbox and reimport your colleagues edit.

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[Austin Steele]

Thanks Alex and Tero. I followed these steps from the link Tero sent:

Settings: as I mentioned, I have “Write XMP ID to Files on Import” and “Enable Clip and XMP Metadata Linking” enabled on both machines, and “Save Media Cache files next to originals when possible” UNchecked on both machines.

After that I reimported the sequence, and the markers were back. Thanks!